Women In Hats!

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[Patricia SF]

hat maker!

Peru
12 month loan

possible currency risk

http://www.kiva.org/app.php?page=businesses&action=about&id=131993&_tpos=1&_tpg=1

[jennifer]

Martha Escoto Talavera, Nicaragua

[my approximate translation]
In the central market in Leon Martha Escoto sells soft drinks outdoors with the goal of improving the state of her home. She also sells snacks and she is visited often by her customers.

Now she has gone to Ceprodel to ask for a loan to buy fruits to make drinks and to buy snacks. With future Ceprodel loans she wants to go forward in her business with a view to obtaining a physical store to be out of the weather.

5* MFI, currency risk covered, 7 month loan

[Claregood1]

28 days left and only $350 to complete the loan.
Ndèye SENE is a lady who is 39 years old, married, and the mother of nine children. She is from Senegal and would like to bolster her merchandise for her shop.

[RichardF]

Welcome to Clare, another Women in Hats Captain of Inspiration!!!
 

[ulrike]

Another irresistable woman




Maruja

What she likes best about her work is knitting, this puts her in a good mood.

http://www.kiva.org/app.php?page=businesses&action=about&id=133411

[jennifer]

Haoua Traore, Mali

Ms. Haoua Traoré, age 49, is married and the mother of three.  She lives with her husband and children in a monogamous family in the Darsalam district of Ségou (4th administrative region of the Republic of Mali).

Not having gone to school due to societal reasons, she soon started to become interested in earning an income with her mother, who used to sell condiments.  After several years of apprenticeship, she has benefited from solid experience in this small business.  Thus, she decided to progress on her own by running a business selling firewood and charcoal, somethings she has been doing for twelve years now in her home.  She sells a lot because she is the only firewood vendor in her district.  People seek her out when there are major events (marriages, baptisms, and funerals).

Concerned about coping with her customers in order to realize more profit, she turned toward Soro Yiriwaso, with which she has been associated for 30 months.  After three solidarity loans and an individual loan, all repaid, she is now on her second individual loan.  This loan will be used to buy a load of firewood and 20 sacks of charcoal in the village of Sanando. She sells retail to customers composed mostly of women, cash or credit accepted.

With this loan, she hopes to realize a monthly profit of 75,000 francs CFA that will enable her to finish her house and to provide for her family (clothing and food).  Her ambition is to build a second residential house.

[jennifer]

Djantoyerela 1 De Group, Mali

The women of the DJANTOYERELA 1 group, 10 in all, are married, with an average age of 35, 4 children each on average, and they live in polygamous families in Zoha, a village in the Sous-Prefecture of Fakola, Prefecture of Kolondièba in the third region (Sikasso) of the Republic of Mali. They met due to bonds of kinship and neighborhood.

When Soro Yiriwaso began to give rural loans which correspond to their work as farmers, these women seized the opportunity. They are on their fourth rural loan, and all three preceding ones were correctly reimbursed.

They want to use this new loan to pay for plowing and weeding, and to buy seeds, fertilizer, and herbicides. They want to plant 20 hectares of peanuts, rice, and millet. These women hope to have an average harvest of 2 tons per hectare, or 40 tons in all. A part of the harvest will be sold in the various weekly markets and the rest destined for consumption.

The profit after their sales will be used to reimburse the loan, cover school fees, for the health expenses of their children, and for buying wedding trousseaux for their daughters.

[jennifer]

Rosa

Sra. Rosa is a native of Urubamba. She lives in the Pisonay neighborhood in Pisonayniyoc. The Pisonay are native trees in the Urubamba Valley zone. The trees are old, large, and very hardy. The neighborhood has a large grove of Pisonay that are loved by the residents.

Sra. Rosa is 65 years old, married, and has two children. She simultaneously takes care of her house and runs a small retail business, selling chicha out of her house (chicha is a corn liquor, typical of the Andes of Peru). She has requested a loan so that she can enhance the atmosphere of her storefront for locals and visitors.

Sra. Rosa is dedicated to making her payments on time and is very grateful for the opportunity the loan will afford her.

[tdcheetah]

Thuoc Le Thi, Vietnam, sells pork in the market
http://www.kiva.org/app.php?page=businesses&action=about&id=125637&_tpos=14&_tpg=4

This is not just a woman in a hat... it's a beautiful smiling woman in a POLKA-DOTTED CAP!



$350, 14 mo, currency risk covered.

[alan]

Yup. I noticed that one, too, Lee. Have my eye on it if it's still not funded by the 15th!

And when are you going to join the Women In Hats team, where everyone's a team captain?